Adding good content to Twitter can be a pain. I can’t do it
during working hours, and I don’t have much time at night. But,
the more content you have, the more followers you can gain, and
the more your original tweets can be seen (hopefully).…

Adding good content to Twitter can be a pain. I can’t do it
during working hours, and I don’t have much time at night. But,
the more content you have, the more followers you can gain, and
the more your original tweets can be seen (hopefully). I have
written several posts about using the latest Perl-Twitter API –
Net::Twitter::Lite::WithAPIv1_1, so you might want to
check these out as well.

– Use MySQL and Perl to automatically find,
follow and unfollow twitter users

– Using Perl to retrieve direct messages from
Twitter, insert messages into a MySQL database and then …

A friend of mine asked me how they could automatically follow and
unfollow people on Twitter. But they didn’t want to follow just
anyone and everyone. He had a Twitter account which they
used for recruiting in a very narrow construction industry. He
wanted to find people in the same industry and follow them –
hoping they would follow him back and learn about his open jobs.
When I joined Twitter back in 2008, I wrote a similar
program to automatically follow/unfollow users, but the Twitter
API has changed quite a bit since then. So I decided to re-write
the program with the latest Perl-Twitter API –
Net::Twitter::Lite::WithAPIv1_1.

Before you attempt to use these scripts, you will need to
register your application with twitter via apps.twitter.com, and obtain the following:

In two earlier posts, I gave some examples on how to use Perl
to send tweets stored in a MySQL database to
Twitter, and then how to automatically reply to your retweets with a
“thanks”. In this post, I will show you how to automatically
download your direct messages from Twitter, store the messages in
a MySQL database, and then delete them.

I don’t like the way Twitter makes me read my direct messages.
Granted, the majority of them are not real messages. The message
is usually thanking me for following the sender, and then there
is a personal website link or a link to a product they are
selling. But if I want to delete a direct message, I have to …

Twitter’s Calvin Sun (@Calvinsun2012) is looking forward to the
fast-approaching Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this April
1-4 in Santa Clara, Calif. He’ll be speaking, yes, but he’s also
looking forward to learning from his peers – particularly those
at Facebook. Both companies, he explained, are in the rather
unique positions of unprecedented rapid growth and ever-expanding
performance demands.

Calvin is a senior engineering manager at Twitter, where he
manages MySQL development. Prior to that, he managed the InnoDB
team at Oracle. Calvin also worked for MySQL Inc. from 2006 to
2008, managing MySQL storage engines development. He has over 15+
years of database development experience.

We have a great amount of technical talks from Oracle – I’m
especially excited about future-focused talks shedding some light
about what to expect in MySQL 5.7 and beyond. This content is
best covered by developers actually designing the system and
writing the code. We also have great coverage of MySQL
alternatives from Percona and MariaDB. You can view the entire
program here.

MySQL gurus from Oracle, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter,
Yelp (and more) have submitted papers and will speak at
the third annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 in
sunny Santa Clara, California this coming April 1-4.

If you attended last April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and
Expo – and/or last month’s Percona Live London 2013 conference –
then you understand the value of learning from some of the
world’s best and brightest system architects and developers. So
you might want to consider registering now and take
advantage of …

I actually don’t remember exactly whether it was
in 2006, 2007 or 2008 — but around that time the MySQL
community had one of the greatest MySQL conferences put on by
O’Reilly and MySQL. It was a good, stable, predictable time.

Shortly thereafter, the MySQL world saw acquisitions, forks,
times of uncertainly, more acquisitions, more forks, rumors
(“Oracle is going to kill MySQL and the whole Internet”)
and just a lot of drama and politics.

And now, after all this time some 6 or 7 years later, it feels
like a MySQL Renaissance. All of the major MySQL players are
coming to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013. I am
happy to see Oracle’s engineers coming with talks — and now with
a great MySQL 5.6 release — and I have great …

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